Consultant Psychiatrist, Intake & Assessment, Acute Mental Health Services, CM Health at Counties Manukau District Health Board (South Auckland), Auckland

Counties Manukau Health is one of the largest providers of primary, secondary and tertiary health care in Australasia.  We invest in growing our community and primary care services that integrate with secondary and tertiary care. We aim to ensure that the health system enables our communities to stay well, recover and live healthy lives together.

We are seeking Consultant Psychiatrists to join our Acute Adult Mental Health Services. These services include the Intake and Acute Assessment and Home Based Treatment. These services are co-located which provides you with some flexibility to work across both teams or work specifically with one team.  

The Intake & Assessment service provides mental health triage, acute assessments, short term treatment interventions, risk assessment, psycho-education, and support of people experiencing urgent mental health and co-existing drug and alcohol issues. The Home Based Treatment service delivers an acute clinical to service users either in their own home or in a community facility enabling the service users to receive treatment with minimum disruption to their lives.   

If you are looking for a great role with a dynamic, supportive and innovative clinical team, then this is the ideal role for you.  We work with a unique and growing multi-cultural population of Counties Manukau, Auckland. If you enjoy working in a busy service with a wide and interesting level of diversity that will enable you to be continually stimulated and challenged we would love to hear from you. 

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Take the opportunity to come and be part of our Mental Health & Addictions Services workforce that is value-driven, engaged and supported.

You will have a dedicated recruitment consultant to support you through your relocation process including medical council and immigration requirements. Financial relocation support will be offered to successful & eligible candidates.

For more information please contact Amy Varcoe in the Recruitment Centre on 09 259 3640 or amy.varcoe@middlemore.co.nz

Job Number: CMH20227605

Salary scale - Medical Specialist as per the ASMS MECA - https://www.asms.org.nz/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/2017-2020-DHB-MECA-Signed.pdf